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tantalize
English
Etymology
From Tantalus (????????) in Greek mythology, who was condemned to Tartarus in the underworld. There, he had to stand for eternity in water that receded from him when he stooped to drink, beneath fruit trees whose branches were always out of reach.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tænt?la?z/
Verb
tantalize (third-person singular simple present tantalizes, present participle tantalizing, simple past and past participle tantalized)
- (transitive) to tease (someone) by offering something desirable but keeping it out of reach
- (transitive) to bait (someone) by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied
Quotations
- 1880 — John Boyle O'Reilly, Moondyne
- They could not bear to be tantalized nor tortured by the splendid delusion.
- 1884 — Edwin Abbott Abbott, Flatland, section 22
- All pleasures palled upon me; all sights tantalized and tempted me to outspoken treason, because I could not but compare what I saw in Two Dimensions with what it really was if seen in Three, and could hardly refrain from making my comparisons aloud.
- “It was—simply amazing,” she repeated abstractedly. “But I swore I wouldn’t tell it and here I am tantalizing you.”
- 1936 — H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness, Ch. IX
- As we threaded our dim way through the labyrinth with the aid of map and compass ... we were repeatedly tantalized by the sculptured walls along our route. ... If we had had more films, we would certainly have paused briefly to photograph certain bas-reliefs, but time-consuming hand-copying was clearly out of the question.
Related terms
- tantalizing
Translations
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tantalized
English
Verb
tantalized
- simple past tense and past participle of tantalize
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